31 results for 'ostrowski arcadia'

“Astonishingly fecund and inventive. The New Arcadia revitalizes pastoral traditions, but more in the mode of lamentation than celebration. Like Frost’s New Hampshire and Vermont, Kinsella’s Western...

"It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them."--Tom Stoppard, Arcadia In a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sits Lady...

Lavishly illustrated, this catalog presents a fascinating cultural history of an idyllic vision of California that still figures prominently in the American imagination. 60 color photos.

Intriguing and fascinating narrative

"Breathtakingly successful." —Michael Dirda, Washington Post A bold and dynamic retelling of five great male-female pairings from the Greek myths: Prometheus and Pandora, Jason and Medea, Oedipus...

How playwrights from Alfred Jarry and Samuel Beckett to Tom Stoppard and Simon McBurney brought the power of mathematics to life on the stageThe discovery of alternate geometries, paradoxes of the...

How playwrights from Alfred Jarry and Samuel Beckett to Tom Stoppard and Simon McBurney brought the power of abstract mathematics to the human stageThe discovery of alternate geometries, paradoxes of...

This volume of selections from the writings of Sir Philip Sidney presents an unusually extensive sample of the work of this major Elizabethan writer. It includes the whole of his sonnet sequence...

Questo è uno scritto allegorico, pervenuto in frammenti, in cui il filosofo neoplatonico del IV secolo d.C. interpreta simbolicamente la sacra acqua del fiume Stige in Arcadia, con riferimenti...

A personal and critical work that celebrates the pleasure of books and reading.Largely unknown to readers today, Sir Philip Sidney’s sixteenth-century pastoral romance Arcadia was long considered one...

DO YOU KNOW… WHAT big celebration drew nine million people to Philadelphia--in 1875? (Hint: It was another "Philly first.") WHICH invention dedicated in 1946 at the University of Pennsylvania...

From Arcadia to Guerilla Gardening, Bomarzo to Little Sparta, Roberto Burle Marx to Fritz Haeg, the Anthropocene to Vibrant Matter: a brilliant and radical A-Z of garden history and garden politics...

In this cozy, witchy romcom, a young woman works to turn a run-down small-town video store into the bookshop of her dreams, only to discover a powerful magic that’s been lying dormant—and a forbidden...

Finalist, 2012 NBCC Award in the Poetry category Recipient, 2011 MacArthur Fellowship and Guggenheim Fellowship A. E. Stallings has established herself as one of the best American poets of her...

From the acclaimed master of historical fiction comes an epic saga about a reluctant hero, the Roman Empire, and the rise of a new faith.Jerusalem and the Sinai desert, first century AD. In the...